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A comment on Fark.com's live thread during the Sept. 11 attacks. Parent comment

Re:Fark.com's live thread during the Sept. 11 attacks by samatman on Sunday September 11, 2022 @10:06AM (#32799727)
It didn't matter if you did have a cellphone, the network was completely overloaded all day, getting a call through was unlikely.

I remember CNN.com being down for the longest time. I didn't have a television or radio so I ended up following along on the BBC website, which didn't crash. Kudos to the engineers behind that one.

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Re:Fark.com's live thread during the Sept. 11 attacks by jen20 on Sunday September 11, 2022 @11:43AM (#32800576)
As I recall, bbc.com was built with WebObjects and a heavy layer of static geneation/caching in front of it at that time, and probably served from Solaris or FreeBSD. This seems like the kind of forum where someone would know with certainty however!
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Re:Fark.com's live thread during the Sept. 11 attacks by mjhagen on Sunday September 11, 2022 @11:51AM (#32800662)
Didn't CNN.com switch to a text only mode?
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Re:Fark.com's live thread during the Sept. 11 attacks by techdragon on Sunday September 11, 2022 @08:28PM (#32804546)
It did. I don’t remember for how long though. But it went text only to keep up with the demand once they had time to make changes.
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